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Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships

What Works and What Doesn't

By: Patricia L. Papernow

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Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships

What Works and What Doesn't

By: Patricia L. Papernow

Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships draws on current research, a wide variety of clinical modalities, and thirty years of clinical work with stepfamily members to describe the special challenges stepfamilies face. The book presents the concept of "stepfamily architecture" and the five challenges it creates, and delineates three different levels of strategies—psychoeducation, building interpersonal skills, and intrapsychic work—for meeting those challenges in dozens of different settings. The model is designed to be useful both to stepfamily members themselves and to a wide variety of practitioners, from a highly trained clinician who needs to know how and when to work on all three levels, to a school counselor or clergy person who may work on the first two levels but refer out for level three. It will also be useful to educators, judges, mediators, lawyers and medical personnel who will practice on the first level, but need to understand the other two to guide their work.

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1136701540

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9781136701542

Becoming A Stepfamily

Patterns of Development in Remarried Families

By: Patricia L. Papernow

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Becoming A Stepfamily

Patterns of Development in Remarried Families

By: Patricia L. Papernow

What determines whether stepfamilies remain together? What helps stepfamilies overcomes the difficulties of remarriage and become mutually supportive family units? How can mental health professionals better support this development? This book brings both clarity and depth to the unique and complex dynamics of remarried families. Patricia Papernow draws on interviews with over 100 stepfamily members, up-to-date research, a solid theoretical framework, and an empathic clinical sensibility to present an insightful model of stepfamily development, the Stepfamily Cycle. This details account of the sages of forming a lasting, cohesive group is richly illustrated by stepfamily members' own stories. Becoming a Stepfamily describes the developmental challenges involved in building nourishing, reliable relationships between stepparents and stepchildren, in the newly married couple, and between different family groups who must learn to live together in a remarried family. Papernow discusses the factors that influence the pace and ease of development, and she provides four full length case studies illustrating the varied paths through the stepfamily cycle to the successful remarried life. The author offers therapists, clergy, school personnel, and others involved with stepfamilies a range of effective interventions, including preventive, educational, and clinical approaches. She provides practical guidance for helping family members deal constructively with the differing attachments of children to their biological parents and stepparents, assisting stepparents as they cope with feeling excluded from the powerful biological parent-child bond, and guiding biological parents torn between their spouse's need for intimacy and privacy and their children's needs for support and attention.

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CRC Press

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1317758153

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Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships

What Works and What Doesn't

By: Patricia L. Papernow

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By: Patricia L. Papernow

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Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships

Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships

Becoming A Stepfamily

Becoming A Stepfamily

Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships

Surviving and Thriving in Stepfamily Relationships

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